Square Makes Mobile Payment Easy on iPhone, iPad and Android
By Azam on May 11, 2010 Add a Comment 
Square, a new venture from a co-founder of Twitter, launched Tuesday with a free application that allows anyone to accept credit card payments on a mobile device.
The San Francisco-based Square, the brainchild of Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, works with…
Continue Reading...Google is very serious about delivering on Voice
By Azam on March 12, 2009 Add a Comment 
Google Voice is an ambitious application from Google to address the market for telephony and voice applications. Google voice is a re branding of voice telephony VOIP application service from the acquisition of GrandCentral that would bring the power of…
Continue Reading...AdMob rings in more capital to the tune of $12.5M for mobile ads
By Azam on January 29, 2009 Add a Comment 
AdMob the mobile ad network popular with iPhone raises an additional $12.5M round of funding. Omar Hamoui reports in his blog post, funds will be used to help AdMob “cement our leadership position by making the investments that will help…
Continue Reading...4INFO raises $20M to SMS to your Mobile
By Azam on January 22, 2009 Add a Comment
4INFO the hot start up that was planning to bring search on to the mobile is now platform to send SMS to the mobile phone for permission based marketing. 4INFO has raised $20M from investors to market to the mobile…
Continue Reading...Aster raises $12M for Data Warehousing
By Azam on January 13, 2009 Add a Comment
Aster Data Systems, which stores data for social networking has raised $12M in a second round of venture funding lead by JAFCO and existing investor participation. Aster Data Systems is attractive solution by helping companies avoid buying expensive hardware, and…
Continue Reading...BOXEE Opens Up
By Azam on January 10, 2009 Add a Comment 
I had the opportunity to see a demo of Boxee. I was totally blown away the Boxee UI and simplistic user interface. Boxee delivers on exactly what one would envision of the future in ability to access all digital media…
Continue Reading...Facebook is Growing Like Crazy
By Azam on December 22, 2008 Add a Comment 
Facebook is putting interesting stats on growth and number related toactive users 140M and 52,000 applications on the facebook platform. Much other growth is coming from overseas with 70% of the users outside of the US. Facebook is currently adding between…
Continue Reading...Tumblr raises 4.5M for micro blogging platform
By Azam on December 12, 2008 Add a Comment 
Tumblr the micro blogging platform raises $4.5 M form investors lead by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Traffic on Tumblr has grown 6x in the past year and now reaches over 15 million monthly uniques through more than 500,000 publishers…
Continue Reading...Searching the Kosmix
By Azam on December 8, 2008 Add a Comment 
Kosmix the search based result on topics has raised $20M in funding lead by Time Warner. The company is launching a redesigned version of the Kosmix search engine for beta testing. The business model is ad driven based on topics…
Continue Reading...Massive In Game Advertising Deal
By Azam on November 24, 2008 Add a Comment
Massive, the in game advertising firm purchased by Microsoft singed an exclusive deal to provide advertising to THQ for in game ads for THQ’s Xbox 360 and PC games. The multi year and game property validates Massive business model and…
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